3 Yoruba Native Caps You Should Know About

Fashion is constantly evolving, however, native caps are still the same as they were many years ago. In Nigeria, traditional fashion styles are not complete without a matching cap. It is a unique part of the outfit that makes every…

5 of the African Indigenous Dances

In Africa, dance serves a complex diversity of purposes. Each performance usually  reflect the communal values and social relationships of the people. Unlike all dance traditions of the world, the polycentric nature of African dance sets it apart from all other dances.…

Honouring Indigenous culture

Nearly 1,000 dancers are expected to kick up their feet at the Poundmaker’s Lodge Treatment Centre’s annual traditional powwow in St. Albert this weekend. The weekend-long event will be kicked off by a traditional story-telling session with elders on Friday,…

A Museum’s Quest to Find a Looted Yorùbá Costume’s Original Owners

Over the last few decades, reckonings of all manner have rocked the foundational ways we have consumed and understood works of art as well as the narratives that inform them. In museums, often the most public-facing arenas to experience art,…

Largest-ever lesson of Zumba dance

Largest-ever lesson of Zumba dance held for elderly in Moscow region – A record-breaking Zumba continental dancing class was held in the city of Balashikha

Shanghai Sacred: inside China’s religious revival – photo essay

Photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley uncovers the spiritual landscape of China’s largest city, revealing the spaces and rituals of this cosmopolitan megalopolis that is home to 26 million people – and to religious groups from Buddhism to Islam, Christianity to Baha’ism, Hinduism…

Nigeria, Korea deepen relationship through dance culture

The Grand finale of the Korean-Pop Dance Competition was held last weekend at the University of Lagos. In its eighth editions, the dance contest, which is organised yearly by the Korean Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Republic of…

Youth keeping Yoruba culture alive

THE drums of the Yoruba Village Drum Festival could be heard throughout the east Port of Spain and environs as people gathered at the village square to commemorate 181 years of Emancipation. Held on June 15, the day before Father’s…

Africa: Saving our languages, preserving our future

As a 10-year-old child newly arrived in Lagos, Nigeria from Liverpool, England, I recall having a conversation with myself. At the time, I instinctively understood that if I was to be able to function properly in the future, being able…

Yorubas urged to preserve culture

A Socio-cultural group, Kaaro-Oojiire Omo Oodua Foundation (KOOOF), has called on the Yorubas at home and in the diaspora to preserve their language and culture. It urged the Southwest states not to allow Yoruba culture to go into extinction. KOOOF Chairman…